Science = Religion

If science can be defined as a non-theological religion, then the wall between church and state is complete fiction. The belief system of science - using reason to explain cause and effect - is just another way of looking at the world. If things appear to make sense, then why is it that rarely is the theory successfully put into practice. Oh, I suppose that you can cite some commercial products, but since Edison got electricity down pat - of what utility has been anything further? Einstein and Pauling discussed some unique possibilities, but really - what did relativity really do, except make people distrust Newtonian concepts of time and space?

If we cannot offer proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, then we must call our ideas theories. Hence we get things like the theory of gravity. Of course, when it works over and over again, we can call it a principle, like the Peter Principle or the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle. Matter and Energy are subject to this, but you can tell that most people these days are oblivious to things like Maxwell's demon or Schroedinger's cat. The entire underpining of the universe depends on these concepts, except if you don't believe them. Then they apparently don't count.

The capitalists are jihading the muslims. Time to give peace a chance. Let the world be based on science rather than economics and let the other religions co-exist. There is no inherent conflict between creation and evolution - both can happen via the same mechanisms and we as scientists and reverends cannot distinguish between them, through our current choices of paradigm and instrumentation. If we check the premises and assume they are all wrong - working back through the theory of life, based on what we think we know now, may lead to an entirely different answer. I think it's worth a shot.